Rain, rain go away...
The Voyages of Richard and Amanda
Wed 9 Jun 2010 15:13
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Still in Ribadeo while the heavens open and
everything gets wet. There are a few leaks that we have yet to locate which have
meant some of Amanda's clothes are wet and are now hanging all over the
boat trying to get dry. The electricity was sorted out this morning so the
batteries are being charged and the fridge cooled down.
We wandered into town for a look around and had a
sandwich and coffee in a cafe while we waited for the rain to stop, which of
course it didn't!!
There are no anti-smoking regs here and it seemed
like everyone in the bar had a cigarette in their mouths. It makes you
appreciate how much nicer it is to go out where you don't come home smelling
like an ashtray.
The town seems a bit more run down than some, or
maybe its just the areas round the marina. There are quite a few derelict
buildings and some of the others seem a bit tatty. It may be though we have just
been in the older parts. We have been trying to decide whether to leave
tomorrow, when there will be stronger winds but the likelyhood of rain or wait
till Sat when the winds settle down to a Northerly and it looks if it will be
drier. As the marina is so cheap and the one in Gijon is more expensive the
favoured option is currently Sat and then a shorter stay in Gijon before going
on to Santander.
Hopefully the next few days will be drier and we
can have a more pleasant sail
When we get to a marina with Wi-fi we will upload
some pictures of all the various places we have been to since La Coruna. At the
moment I am still updating the blog via the satphone.
Yesterday was a cook-in day; today we will try the
local restaurant. The menus are fairly basic usually fish is good, the meat can
be a bit stringy. They don't do veg - if its fish it comes with boiled potatoes,
if its meat it comes with chips. So usually you take a mixed salad with
your starter and save it for the main course. Salads are excellent - you
cannot get tomatoes in the UK the way they taste here.
A Frenchman off a boat a couple of berths down from
us has a Moody 39, so we spent some time comparing notes well as far as you can
when he didn't speak English and my French is limited to an O level 50 years
ago. Still Thornycroft(the engine) is the same in English and
French
More tomorrow...
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